BSD Ports

x11/bmpanel2 2.1.p1_2 DragonFly

Lightweight NetWM-compliant panel (taskbar) for X11

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
x11
Package size
227.5 KiB, 550.1 KiB installed

Description

BMPanel (bitmap panel) is nice, lightweight, NetWM-compatible panel for your X11 desktop. It currently features:

  • Look'n'feel customization via themes (20 of them included)
  • A bunch of widgets: desktop switcher, taskbar, launchbar, systray, clock, decor, empty (unofficial temperature widget also available)
  • Pseudo (default) and compositing (optional) transparency support
  • Written in C with speed and clarity in mind
  • Small number of dependencies, briefly: glib2, cairo, pango, libX11
  • Small memory footprint (about 2-4 megabytes)
  • Small executable (80 kilobytes at the moment)

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2.1.p1, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11/bmpanel22.1.p1_2 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11/bmpanel22.1.p1_2 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-12
NetBSDwm/bmpanel2 by name2.1pre1nb41none known-[email protected]2026-09-29
HardenedBSDx11/bmpanel22.1.p1_2 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11/bmpanel22.1.p1_2 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install bmpanel2

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/bmpanel2 && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 6

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